I see so many association games and alphabet games so I have a new one...Rule 1. This is an alphabet association game. Rule 2. With the word you associate you must put down a quote related to that word.

I'll start:

Applaud - "Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. ~Aesop"

best believe that needle hurts you, best to see these true colors than follow one of your false virtues. tell you a secret to make you think "why is this crazy stuff we'd never say poetry in ink?" ...tell me you, I'll show you me.

"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone." ~Sam Levenson

"...when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings." ~Sogyal Rinpoche

best believe that needle hurts you, best to see these true colors than follow one of your false virtues. tell you a secret to make you think "why is this crazy stuff we'd never say poetry in ink?" ...tell me you, I'll show you me.

"What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right." ~Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

best believe that needle hurts you, best to see these true colors than follow one of your false virtues. tell you a secret to make you think "why is this crazy stuff we'd never say poetry in ink?" ...tell me you, I'll show you me.

best believe that needle hurts you, best to see these true colors than follow one of your false virtues. tell you a secret to make you think "why is this crazy stuff we'd never say poetry in ink?" ...tell me you, I'll show you me.

“For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world.” ~Russell Brand, My Booky Wook

“Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners” -Muslih-uddin Sadi

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ~Kahlil Gibran

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ~Kahlil Gibran

(love the Prophet)

(I really like that one ^^)

Morals

“A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

best believe that needle hurts you, best to see these true colors than follow one of your false virtues. tell you a secret to make you think "why is this crazy stuff we'd never say poetry in ink?" ...tell me you, I'll show you me.

“To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.” ― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (my favorite HWL quote) (winks at Diamond)

best believe that needle hurts you, best to see these true colors than follow one of your false virtues. tell you a secret to make you think "why is this crazy stuff we'd never say poetry in ink?" ...tell me you, I'll show you me.

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.” ~ Jim Morrison

"This is one of the most violent places in the world, but people here live beyond fear."

-Swedish journalist and writer Stefan Jonsson in a travel feature about a mining town in Greenland with badly broken social codes and rocketing rates of crime and alcoholism. There's something weirdly funny about the way the second part of the quote comes in so from the left field; it's not what you'd expect after a "but" is it?

best believe that needle hurts you, best to see these true colors than follow one of your false virtues. tell you a secret to make you think "why is this crazy stuff we'd never say poetry in ink?" ...tell me you, I'll show you me.

“There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.” ~ Audrey Hepburn

“Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and hue, because it tells us there is one right way to do things, to look, to behave, to feel, when the only right way is to feel your heart hammering inside you and to listen to what its timpani is saying.” ― Anna Quindlen